On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Stig Meireles Johansen stigmj@gmail.com wrote:

Would it be possible to add some kind of feature or extension which enables users to either;

• get a list of the next/previous articles alphabetically (a short index) in

a separate box/window, or

That shouldn't be hard to do at all.

• get a summary of the next articles at the bottom of current article (to

simulate a book)

Not clear what this means.

There has been some suggestions to add a transcluded Special:Prefixindex/{{PAGENAME}} to the stub-templates, but I have warned them off with a possible hit in uncacheable pages..

It would be cached perfectly fine. It just wouldn't update when new pages are created, until the cache expires or is purged. (Have you read [[WP:PERF]]?)

Adding some AJAX-functionality would also need some kind of uncacheable special-page output.

AJAX isn't relevant at all here.

The extension "Back and Forth"[1] written by the excellent but unfortunately disappeared Rob Church, does the following: 'Adds "Next" and "Previous" alphabetic paging links to the top of pages'. A screenshot can be found at [1].

It has already been localised in the following 74 localisations: af, ang, ar, as, ast, avk, bcl, be-tarask, bg, bn, br, cs, da, de, dsb, el, eo, ext, fi, fr, frp, gag, gl, hi, hr, hsb, hu, hy, ia, io, is, it, ja, jv, kaa, km, kn, ksh, lb, lt, ml, mr, nah, nds, nl, nn, no, nso, oc, pl, pms, ps, pt, ru, sah, scn, sk, sr-ec, srn, stq, su, sv, ta, te, tg-cyrl, th, tr, uk, vec, vi, vo, yue, zh-hans, zh-hant

There is also "Page After And Before"[2] by Jean-Lou Dupont, but I have no idea how that behaves. I usually only install extensions from the MediaWiki source code repository.

Requesting new extensions to be installed on the Wikimedia farm currently has a backlog of about 3-6 months. There are about 10 extensions on the list[3]. Since 19 May no extensions in the queue have been processed.

Cheers! Siebrand

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Back-and-Forth [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAfterAndBefore [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue#Extensions

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Stig Meireles Johansen Verzonden: woensdag 6 augustus 2008 14:18 Aan: Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Onderwerp: [Wikitech-l] Next/previous articles

I'm posting this question here as it's kind of specific to wikipedia/media as well as it's a possible mediawiki-feature-request.

Would it be possible to add some kind of feature or extension which enables users to either; - get a list of the next/previous articles alphabetically (a short index) in a separate box/window, or - get a summary of the next articles at the bottom of current article (to simulate a book)

There has been some suggestions to add a transcluded Special:Prefixindex/{{PAGENAME}} to the stub-templates, but I have warned them off with a possible hit in uncacheable pages.. Adding some AJAX-functionality would also need some kind of uncacheable special-page output.

I guess there's always a way to do a quick hack of this, but doing it in a way that's cacheable and meaningful is another problem.

Stigmj@nowiki